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Speaker 1: Radio Plus Appen Bloomberg Dot Gone. This is taking stock Walmart.

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Speaker 1: Walmart has ruled brick and mortar retail, but what about

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Speaker 1: e commerce? It has spent billions to expand its online operations.

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Speaker 1: Walmart has hired thousands of workers, open two offices in

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Speaker 1: And now it's buying Jet dot Com. Will that help

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Speaker 1: Walmart in its battle against Amazon? That's next? Right now,

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Charlie Pellett in the Bloomberg news room

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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg Business. Flat man, I think of him Fox

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Speaker 1: Amazon down one tenth of one percent, of Walmart down

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Speaker 1: six tenths of one percent. Stocks are lower, pulling back

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Speaker 1: quarter of earnings declines. Schelle Meyer's head of US Economics

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Speaker 1: at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, And on Bloomberg Television

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Speaker 1: this morning, she was asked how the July jobs report

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Speaker 1: The labor market data has been clearly rebussed. On a

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Speaker 1: We've seen some weekending and I'm survey data as well.

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Speaker 1: Steinhoff International Holdings European Acquisitions free has swept across the

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Speaker 1: Atlantic as the South African retailer agreed to buy Mattress

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Speaker 1: making news. Thank you, Charlie from the Boomberg news room.

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Speaker 1: I'm Raimi in aescentio. Donald Trump is focusing his economic

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Speaker 1: his proposals include reducing regulations, increasing energy production, and tax reform.

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Speaker 1: I will have one overriding goal when it comes to regulation.

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Speaker 1: I want jobs and I want wealth to stay in America.

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton will deliver an address on the economy on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Dissatisfied Republicans now have an alternative to Donald Trump. Conservative

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Speaker 1: conservative choice for presidents. Delta Airlines has canceled around four

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Speaker 1: thank you, and again recapping Stock's lawre SMP five index

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Speaker 1: This is taking Stock with Kathleen Hayes and Pimpox on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Three point three billion dollars. Three point three

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Speaker 1: So states, tell me a little bit about this deal

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Speaker 1: do this because the people in Bentonville, Walmart headquarters, have

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Speaker 1: they're actually doing the wrong thing. The board of directors

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Speaker 1: a desperation acquisition. And Jet dot Com think about it,

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